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It was real. I was an English teacher working abroad in Korea, China and Thailand and I can say confidently that this isn’t a learning tool, it’s the defacing of literary work. Reading education should not require the alteration of the authors words, there are already thousands of books at every reading level that English learners can use to build up to this level of reading. This is close to the old issue with CliffsNotes, it’ll help you pass a test or book report, but you won’t know what you read, you just get these simplified ideas. The Mona Lisa if it was painted in only five strokes. The fact this is done by AI makes it worse, too. It means there developer just put a shell up, ran a few chatGPT rewrites that took ten seconds each, and slapped it on the App Store, hoping to eventually convince some dum dum publishing house to let them put books that aren’t in the public domain on it and scam a living for themselves.

I was painfully curious so I downloaded the app and checked it out. First, there’s only 10 entries on the app (these things are no longer books). The writing is simplified, and it’s also horrible. There are typos, poor grammar, and most sentences are incomplete because they lack the basic building blocks of a sentence. To call this an educational tool is disgusting. This is nothing but thievery and laziness. To twist the original authors words so much and claim it as educational is abhorrent. This app should never be on the App Store. The fact that Apple allows slop like this is pathetic and embarrassing

This app has only 9 books to choose from. 😳 I assumed it would allow the upload of any pre copyright text (for instance, from Project Gutenberg), but not so. Maybe they intend to get there. In the meantime, this seems like a premature launch and waste of time.